Word: vereen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christmas in Washington." According to an NBC spokesman. "President and Mrs. Reagan will participate in a specially produced segment from the White House." They will join a list of headliners that includes Dianne Carroll, Barbara Mandrell, Ben Vereen, former "Duke of Hazzard" John Schnieder, and Reaganite Dinah Shore. None of the Democratic hopefuls for 1984 will get equal time to rebut the President's Christmas greeting
...three-week bicycle tour through China's Guangdong province by Entertainer Ben Vereen, 35, and Actress Kate Jackson, 33, was perhaps intended as a wide-eyed Baedeker, Hollywood-style. But the tour, filmed for an upcoming TV special, quickly lapsed into a Sesame Street type of learn-along, staged at an elementary school in the town of Foshan. Skillfully exploiting an opening for his cheery brand of showmanship, Vereen guided some 500 of the school's five-and six-year-olds through their "do-re-mis" and "ABCs." Old Macdonald Had a Farm, an old stand-by that...
...least six other performers during the show, and does it a little wryly, not just the simple "If I can make it there I can make it anywhere" Babbitry of his imitators. But he doesn't stay long, and soon Joey Heatherton is on stage, and Ben Vereen, and Jack Jones, all wards of Caesars Palace and the Sahara and the Dunes. And then Mike Douglas, crinkly-eyes and soothing friend of millions. And for the kids, a little "rock," from Rick Springfield, better known for his regular role on "General Hospital." A fat, old Mel Torme, Lola Falana...
...usual grab bag of show-biz metaphors is not equal to the dramatic tasks at hand. Indeed, some of Fosse's conceits are embarrassing. An angel of death (Jessica Lange) trots in and out to recite banal Freudian explanations of Gideon's workaholism and promiscuous sexuality. Ben Vereen and dancers in cardiovascular body stockings hoof it up to songs with lyrics about death. A hospital fantasy sequence looks at once like an elaborate antismoking commercial, a parody of Fellini and a Vegas floor show. The results are shocking, but not in the way that Fosse intended...
...series stretches from Kinte's African boyhood through his offspring's torturous rise from slavery in America. Unglamorized and at times disturbingly stark, Roots features Cicely Tyson as Kinte's mother, Maya Angelou as his grandmother, John Amos as Kinte in middle age, and Ben Vereen as his grandson. Kinte as a teenager will be portrayed by LeVar Burton, 19, a U.S.C. sophomore and acting novice. To give the somber story line additional star power, such big names as Lorne Greene, Lloyd Bridges, Chuck Connors, O.J. Simpson, Leslie Uggams and Doug McClure will appear in small roles...